Stock-car



UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE,

BRANTLEY P. JOINER,OF FLORENCE, ALABAMA.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,595, dated May 1, 1883.

Application filed December 21, 1882. (No model.)

.T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BRANTLEY P. JOINER, of Florence, in the county of Lauderdale and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates especially to railwaycars employed for transporting live stock, and has forits object the provision of simple, cheap, and effective means whereby food and water may be supplied to the stock without removing from the car.

To attain this end my invention consists essentiallyin employingtwo transversal troughs suspended within the car, upon each sidethereof, bymeans of cords or chains attached thereto and passing upward to a winding-shaft or over pulleys to a winding-shaft near the bottom of the car, upon the exterior thereof. Said troughs are arranged to receive the food and water, the corn, oats, or other grain being placed within the troughs and elevated to the top of the car, and the water-trough being filled throughsuitable connecting-pipes located at the end of the car and adapted. and arranged to have connection with the road-tanks. The troughs may be elevated at the same time, containing the feed, and lowered only when needed, being entirely out of the way of the stock while loading and unloading, the feed being entirely out of the reach of the stock, and when consumed may be replenished either at the side of the car or at the top. Then not in use for transportin g cattle, the troughs may all be elevated out of the way, the car being available for any kind of freight. The lower-: ing and hoisting mechanism is so arranged that one man can easily operate it and attend to the needs of an entire train-load of stock with ease and dispatch.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved stock-car, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view at line as x of Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

My improved car may be made entirely new, or any of the ordinary cars now in use may be fitted with my device. 'lhe'body of the car may be made with a frame and slats, in the usual manner. Within the car, at each extremity thereof, are affixed guide strips A,

passing at an angle from the bottom to the top of the ear. End and side guides, to, may also be atfixed, if required, and central-guides, A. At a suitable height above the floor of the car cross supports B extend from the sides of the car to the upright guides A and A.

G O are grain and water troughs extending the entire length of the car, and of such a capacity as to hold twelve to fifteen bushels of grain each. Affixed to the extremity of each of said troughs is a rope or chain, D, passing to the top of the car and around a longitudinal shaft, E, being attached thereto. These shafts may be made solid, or of metal pipe, as shown, the latter construction rendering them light, while sufficiently strong.

At one end of shaft E is located a pawl, F, and ratchet-wheel G, a square hub,e, being provided for a removable crank, H.

I is a water-pipe with two branches, extending to the interior of the car, at each side thereof, in such a manner as to conduct water from the road-tanks to the interior of the car when required.

Shaft E may be placed at the bottom of the car instead of at the top, chains D passing therefrom over suitable pulleys, J, at the top of the car, and thence to the troughs.

WVhen constructed and arranged in accord ance with the foregoing description, one trough upon each side of the car may be filled with grain and elevated to the top of the car, outof the way of the cattle or stock, and the second brought up at the side of it. When it is desired ,to feed the stock the crank is applied to the shaft, the pawl thrown back, and the trough lowered until it rests upon the supports 13. After the stock have eaten sufficient grain said trough may be elevated and the second trough lowered and filled with water by means ofthe supply-pipe atthe end of the car.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim as new therein, and desire to se- V core by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a stock-car of the character herein specified, the combination, with the body thereof, of the longitudinal troughs G and O, adaptspecified, troughs O and 0, guides A and A, ed and arranged to be supported at the top of shafts E, provided with pawl F and ratchet- 1 the car, side by side, as set forth, or lowered wheel G, chains or cords D, crank H, and Wasingly to a common support near the floorof ter-supply pipe I, the whole combined and arthe car, substantially as shown and described. ranged to operate substantially as shown and 2. In a stock-car of the character herein described. specified, the combination, with the troughs In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 20 O and 0, adapted and arranged to be suphave hereunto set my hand in the presence of ported at the top of the car, side by side, as witnesses. 7 set forth, of the slanting guides A and cross BRANTLEY P. JOINER. supports B, substantially as shown and de- \Vitnesses:

scribed. 13. B. SHANE,

JESSE W. BROOKS.

3. In a stock-car of the character herein l 

